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Whilst a few members have already now started their triathlon seasons, this time we are going to cast our minds back to February 2024, winter is still fully in affect and an intrepid trio of PTC members have made their way down to Portsmouth for the Portsmouth Duathlon! It\u0027s at this point that I\u0027ll hand over to our courageous chairwomen, Rowena Rogers, to pick up the trail!\u003c/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\u0022color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\u0022\u003eSo a bright an sunny day dawned over Portsmouth and it was time to kick the race season off. Although, hang on a minute… it was not a bright and sunny day, but piddling down, cold, and blowing a hooley!\u003c/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\u0022color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\u0022\u003e \u003cbr\u003eNeedless to say, Leighton, Amy and myself headed to Southsea to have a crack at duathloning, and packed a variety of winter clothing to stay warm. There weather may have been pants, but by gum it was nice not to be getting up at the crack of sparrows!\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\u0022color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\u0022\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe absence of swim plays right into my comfort zone, but alas as usual the legs weren’t playing ball and the persist knee tendinopathy and new glute issue had been fairly feral in the week leading up to it. Figuring that the planned two lots of 5km fast runs might leave my season in a frozen Portsmouth, I went against my diesel tendencies and opted for the super short distance. Theory being, I wasn’t going to do any real damage over 2 x 2.5km runs, but did leave me with a bike that was only 12.5km! \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter waving Leighton \u0026 Amy off for their middle distance, I practiced the fine art of leaving the shedding of waterproofs til the last possible moment before heading out. Run 1 was fairly uneventfully and it was something of a shock to the system to have a 4 at the start of my speed! After realising the watch was indeed not wrong I set about maintaining this without torching myself within the first 10 minutes! Having yet again faffed in transition having an issue with bike shoe fastening, it was off onto the shortest bike imaginable!\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\u0022color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\u0022\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs previously mentioned, the short stuff is not my speciality. What I really like to do is get on the TT bike and cruise around for 90k or more… reluctantly I’d left the TT at home due to the weather and not wanting to get it dirty, but the speedsters all seemed to have brought theirs so fomo was extreme! The course is open busy roads, with huge variety of speeds of bike riders and car traffic to navigate. Getting held up is inevitable, but par for the course with this sort of racing. Was just getting started when it was over, but managed a decent pace so happy with that! 24minutes for 12.5km.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\u0022color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\u0022\u003e \u003cbr\u003eRun 2 : time to find out if I should have saved a bit on the first run! At this stage it dawned on me that there didn’t seem to be many women around me at all? Again I saw the mystical 4 at the start of the speed, can’t imagine there will be many more times that happens! A small fade in the middle, but watching Leighton disappear into the distance after he passed me st the turn around spurred me on keep the speed up! And before I knew it, I was done!\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\u0022color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\u0022\u003e \u003cbr\u003eDue to the weather I genuinely spent more time debating kit and bike choice than I actually did racing! There were I think not too many experienced athletes in the field, but I was still quite surprised to be on the podium which NEVER happens to me! My third actually got bumped up to second as well (the winners bike time of 14minutes was a bit of a give away something was off, Pogacar would have struggle to do 12.5km in that time round southsea). As the winner was a clear 30yrs younger than me that’s basically a win!!\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\u0022color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\u0022\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn short, I quite enjoyed my duathlon, and will definitely do some more . And the return to this event confirmed why I’ve always liked it. Not only are the organisers that lovely combination of really ‘on it’ and also relaxed (I was able to switch distance morning of the race), but there’s even parking, a coffee cart and civilised loo’s right by transition! Roll on next year, I will be back! Anyone newer to racing and/or wanting an early season outing pop it in your calendar for next year!\u003c/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\u0022color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\u0022\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\u0022color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\u0022\u003eFor a bit of insight in to how Leightons race went follow the link to his personal race blog at your leisure!\u003cbr\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003ca href=\u0022https://www.firsttriathlon.co.uk/portsmouth-duathlon-170324\u0022 id=\u0022m_6763688995345994915LPlnk756873\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 data-saferedirecturl=\u0022https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.firsttriathlon.co.uk/portsmouth-duathlon-170324\u0026source=gmail\u0026ust=1715457460565000\u0026usg=AOvVaw3w0HlO8R7z3Av7aCZrDsO_\u0022\u003e\u003cspan style=\u0022color: rgb(255, 255, 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